What a fabulous hangover

I’m hoping to bring you pictures and a report from the lavish christening ceremony in Trieste for Costa’s newest ship, Favolosa, but you might have to be patient. I had to decline an invitation to attend so that I could spend a week with my brother on his fund-raising cycle ride around the UK coast, and have been relying on Costa to keep me up to date. For some reason, communications appear to have broken down.
An information pack was mailed to my home address, and an embargoed email with details of Saturday’s event arrived on Friday, closely followed by this mysterious message: “Please kindly disregard my previous email and all of the information contained within. An updated media release will be available soon.”
My request today for updated information and some pictures from the event has elicited only this brief response from the UK press office: “Unfortunately we don’t have any further details from the event at the moment.”
I can only imagine that there are some serious hangovers still being nursed over in Italy this morning – time for some medicinal doses of Fernet Branca, perhaps.